Claude Opus 4.8 vs MiniMax M2-her
Compare Claude Opus 4.8 by Anthropic against MiniMax M2-her by MiniMax, context windows of 1.0M vs 66K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.8
MiniMax M2-herRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.8 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
MiniMax M2-her is 21x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.8
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
MiniMax M2-her
Input
$0.30
17× cheaper
Output
$1.20
21× cheaper
MiniMax M2-her is cheaper on both — 17× input, 21× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
51%
MiniMax M2-her uses 4.6x more transitions
Claude Opus 4.8
MiniMax M2-her
60%Vocabulary65%
19wSentence Length18w
0.46Hedging0.71
4.7Bold2.0
3.2Lists1.7
0.78Emoji0.96
1.15Headings0.31
0.04Transitions0.21
Based on 27 + 24 text responses
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